Functional responses of the rat isolated seminal vesicle to electrical field stimulation: A pharmacological analysis

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 22-29

  Gokhale, S D ^a   Bashir, A A ^a   Chandranath, S I ^b  

^a AL ARAB MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

6 hydroxydopamine; Atropine; Discrete innervations; Ecothiopate; Electrical field stimulation; Prazosin; Presynaptic adrenergic interaction; Rat seminal vesicle; Reserpine; Yohimbine

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; NORADRENALIN; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ATROPINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXIDOPAMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEMINAL VESICLES;

EID: 0029686041     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1996.tb03057.x     Document Type: Article

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